Charts of the day: A look at the Greek debt burden

We have two charts from the just-published edition of The Greek Economy, a monthly update from the Hellenic Statistical Authority.

Of the many charts in the document, we picked these two because they depict to loss of national financial sovereignty in a dramatic way.

Our first chart is straightforward, showing the dramatic rise in the ratio of Greek debt to the national GDP:

The second graph charts the radical change in the nature of Greece’s debt, a changed mandated by the financial overlords of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Central Bank — the Troika — as a condition of financial aid.

In the chart, debt in the form of securities such as government bonds is represented by the broken blue line, while second broken line represents debt in the form of outright loans. The radical shift was the result of the Troika’s demands on becoming the nation’s financial overlords.

The third and constant line in the graph represents debt in the form of cash and cash deposits: